384-Final-Question 1 - Joe Pucci Hist 384 Final Exam...

Joe Pucci Hist 384 Final Exam December 13, 2008 Question 1, Answer C May of 1968 was a very tumultuous time for in many sectors of the world . Indeed, the time had come where people were actually becoming aware of their surroundings, and they had something to say about them . This was particularly true in France. France had been under the regime of General Charles de Gaulle . Although many in France praised his political actions during his reign in the fifth republic, there was a large contingent of young people and workers who did not agree with de Gaulle’s political ideals . They felt the government was restrictive on them . The restrictive nature of the country pervaded many aspects, including the media, which had a monopoly ownership by the government . A meeting between Franz Fanon, Tariq Ali, and Ralf Dahrendorf in the Latin Quarter of Paris at this time would have put these three dynamic figures right in the center of the uprisings that were occurring . In seeing a sign reading “France is an Incomplete Democracy,” all three would have had their own view on the statement, as well as an understanding of the context of the statement in the setting in which they were all in . Frantz Fanon was a French colonial who was a revolutionary in his work . He believed in decolonization, and in many ways believed in such “Third World” ideals as socialism and

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